https://github.com/tomcasavant/wikibot

Mastodon bot that posts daily with historical events from today from wikipedia
https://github.com/tomcasavant/wikibot

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Mastodon bot that posts daily with historical events from today from wikipedia

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/tomcasavant/wikibot
• Owner: TomCasavant
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2024-01-31T22:05:59.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-03-25T16:57:50.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-03-20T17:58:07.677Z (over 1 year ago)
• Topics: bot, mastodon, python, wikipedia
• Language: Python
• Homepage:
• Size: 23.4 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 5
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Mastodon Wiki Bot

Hosted at [@daily_wikipedia@tomkahe.com](https://tomkahe.com/@daily_wikipedia)

Provides a daily markdown formatted post with random events from this date in history on wikipedia along with a random wikipedia article.

![image](https://github.com/TomCasavant/wikibot/assets/7014115/3c371c26-5a0b-4c41-bf41-8ae2d5843995)

## Setup

1. Clone and cd into repository

2. (Optional, recommended) Setup a virtual environment (`python -m virtualenv .venv` and `source .venv/bin/activate`)

3. Install requirements.txt (`pip install -r requirements.txt`)

4. Copy config.toml.example to config.toml

5. Create mastodon credentials on your server (login to bot account -> settings -> Development -> Create New Application)

6. Copy server url and access token into config.toml

7. Configure wiki user agent and customize number of events/birts/deaths/holidays in config.toml

8. run the script with `python wiki.py`

9. (Optional) configure crontab, sample configuration: `0 18 * * * /home/tom/wiki-bot/.venv/bin/python /home/tom/wiki-bot/wiki.py` (runs every day at 6pm)

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